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Pretty cool.
I wonder if Stihl made any rifles...
From the net: Holden Brink, an authority on Swedish military firearms, the M-67/89 rifles made by Carl Gustafs and Husqvarna were among the finest rolling blocks ever turned out. In order to pass proof for smokeless powder, new barrels, breechblocks and hammers were all made of high-grade Swedish tool steel alloyed with nickel, copper and vanadium, a product noted for its strength and corrosion resistance. Even the receivers, which serve basically as a frame in the rolling block design, were rehardened and the case colors remain bright today on many examples. You don't want to hot rod a 140-year-old rifle, of course, but so long as the weapon is in good condition and the loads are kept to reasonable pressures, there's no reason why the 8x57R rolling block can't be as useful to us today as it has been to generations of Scandinavianhunters.
I wonder if Stihl made any rifles...
From the net: Holden Brink, an authority on Swedish military firearms, the M-67/89 rifles made by Carl Gustafs and Husqvarna were among the finest rolling blocks ever turned out. In order to pass proof for smokeless powder, new barrels, breechblocks and hammers were all made of high-grade Swedish tool steel alloyed with nickel, copper and vanadium, a product noted for its strength and corrosion resistance. Even the receivers, which serve basically as a frame in the rolling block design, were rehardened and the case colors remain bright today on many examples. You don't want to hot rod a 140-year-old rifle, of course, but so long as the weapon is in good condition and the loads are kept to reasonable pressures, there's no reason why the 8x57R rolling block can't be as useful to us today as it has been to generations of Scandinavianhunters.